YELLOW RED-POLL WARBLER. 265 
tion furnished of the female in winter plumage. The only points of 
essential difference, compared with the description given above, are, 
“above bluish-ash, the feathers of the crown with a narrow, those of the 
middle of the back with a broad, streak of dark brown. A narrow semi- 
circular ring of black surrounds the eye, touching its anterior part; eye- 
lids white. Length, 5.50; wing, 2.75; tu«il, 2.50; tarsus, 80.” 
The place of breeding, nest, and eggs of this bird remain to be dis- 
covered. 
DENDR@CA PALMARUM (Gm.) Bd. 
var. PALMARUM (Ridg way.) 
YWellow MRed-poll Warbler. 
Sylvia petechia, KIRTLAND, Ohio Geolog. Surv., 1838, 163. 
Sylvicola ruficapilla, READ, Fam. Visitor, iii, 1853, 407; Proc. Philad. Acad. Nat. ae vi, 
1853, 395. 
Dendroica palmarum, Batrp, P. R. R. Rep., ix, ae 289.— WHEATON, Ohio Agric. Rep. 
for 1860, 364; Reprint, 1861, 6 
Dendreca palmarum, WHEATON, Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1874, 564; Re- 
print, 1875, 4.LaNGpDN, Cat. Birds of Cin., 1877, 6. 
Dendreca palmarum, var. palmarum, LANGDON, Revised List, Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist, 
i, 1879, 172; Reprint, 6. 
Motacilla palmarum, GMELIN, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 95. 
Sylvia petechia, WILSON, Am. Oro., vi, 1812, 19. 
Sylvicola ruficapilla, BONAPARTE, Geog. aud Comp. List, 18338, 22. 
- Dendreca palmarum, SCLATER, Proe. Zool. Soc , 1861, 71. 
Dendreca palmarum, var. palmarum, RipG@way, Ball. Nutt. Orn. Club, i, 1876, 384. 
In spring: brownish-olive, rump and upper tail coverts brighter yellowish-olive, back 
obsoletely streaked with dusky, crown chestnut; superciliary line and entire under parts 
rich yellow, breast and sides with reddish-brown streaks, somewhat as in the Summer 
Warbler; a dusky loral line running through the eye; no white wing-bars, the wing cov- 
erts and inner quills being edged with yeilowish-brown ; tail spots at very end of inner 
webs of two outer pairs of tail feathers only, and cut squarely off—a peculiarity distin- 
guishing the species in any plumage. Female not particularly different from the male. 
Young, an obscure looking species, brownish above like a young Yellow-rump, but 
upper tail coverts yellowish-olive, and under tail coverts apt to show quite bright yellow 
in contrast with the dingy yellowish-white or brownish-white of other under parts; 
crown generally showing chestnut traces; but in any plumage, known by absence of 
white wing-bars and peculiarity of tail spots. Length 54, wing 24, tail 24. 
Very common, sometimes irregular, spring and fall migrant. Ar- 
rives with or shortly after the Yellow-rump in spring and fall; usually 
departs sooner in the fall. More of them are seen in spring than in 
fall. They frequent the borders of streams, weedy fields, and the edges 
of thickets, and are frequently in company with Yellow-rum s, Blue- 
birds, and Sparrows. They are decidedly terrestrial in their habits, and 
have the habit, in common with the members of the next genus, of tip- 
